BSA Sport Study Group: Items for Network: Autumn 2016

As there is no guarantee all of the information members of the list have supplied will be published in Network I have copied below what was sent to the editorial team.

Events
Sport Study Group members at York St John University, York, hosted the Annual Postgraduate Forum for doctoral and other postgraduate research students in September.  Delegates heard 16 presentations and a keynote lecture by Dr Dominic Malcolm during a very successful day.  A separate, fuller, report on the day will be circulated to this list. In 2017 the PG Forum will be staged at the University of Lincoln. Further details will be available early next year.

In the context of the next Research Excellence Framework and changes to teaching in UK higher education suggested by the White Paper on HE the BSA Sport Study Group is staging a workshop on ‘Research and Teaching in the Sociology of Sport’ on 17th February 2017. The confirmed speakers/panelists are Jayne Caudwell, Jon Dart, Mark Doidge, John Horne, Dominic Malcolm, and Kath Woodward. If you would like to participate in this interactive workshop please apply as soon as possible as there are only 30 places available. For further details see:
https://britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/research-teaching-in-the-sociology-of-sport/ .

‘Sport in Art, Art in Sport’, and ‘Aesthetics and Representation’ were the titles of the first two seminars in an AHRC research network held, respectively, at the National Football Museum (NFM) in Manchester at the end of June, and the University of Bristol in September.  The meetings considered the benefits and challenges for participation and audiences of bringing the arts and sport together. Speakers discussed the way the Olympics has changed participation practices and profiles, that the Olympic education programme was an often overlooked way of bringing art and sport together, and the role of the NFM and its public in terms of history and culture.  An email group, free to subscribe to, is: [log in to unmask] or you can check the web site: (https://artsinsport.wordpress.com/).

Dominic Malcolm has been tasked with organizing the inaugural seminar series of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine. The series aims to facilitate interdisciplinary understanding of sport, health and medicine, and identify how the bio- and social sciences can collaborate to facilitate the effective translation of knowledge into policy and practice. Details available at http://www.ncsem-em.org.uk/shm-seminar-series/


Monographs and Edited Collections

Daniel Burdsey’s Race, Place and the Seaside: Postcards from the Edge (London: Palgrave, 2016) is the first academic monograph to focus exclusively on issues of race, ethnicity, whiteness and multiculture at the English seaside. The book calls for acknowledgement of the racialised nature of this environment, and proposes that its distinctive spaces, places, traditions and narratives should be included within broader analyses of race in contemporary Britain. Combining theoretical insight and empirical fieldwork, the book disrupts dominant thinking that fixes ontologically minority ethnic bodies to urban spaces, and overcomes their erasure and silencing from the seaside landscapes of the popular imagination.

Dominic Malcolm’s Sport, Medicine and Health: the medicalization of sport? (London: Routledge, 2016) explores the multiple, and at times contradictory, relationships that exist within the promotion of sport and exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle, and the rational exploitation of science and medicine in elite sport’s pursuit of competitive success. Drawing on both the sociologies of sport and medicine/health, and underpinned by an Eliasian sociological perspective, the text exploits a wide range of empirical research projects.


John Horne
September 2016